Posts Tagged ‘lace’

I was given this old hand stitched wedding dress to do something with… and it’s very confronting! I have never believed in marriage and don’t like wedding dresses but there is wonderful details and the heaviness of the satin in contrast with the tulle does ignite a few ideas about building castles in the air with dreams or planting it in the garden and growing a meadow of wildflowers through it… and brings to mind my fabulous sculptor friend Bronwyn Berman’s great reply to a conversation we were having via e-mail about making it in the art world;“And what is made it or almost made it? My experience is that we make it then we unmake it. I think I’ve made it more than once but thought I hadn’t made it so kept wanting to make it, then when it had been unmade again I realised that I had made and not appreciated it, then think that really what I have now is making it then think I’m a deluded ‘has been’ who is too old to ever make it, and in any case couldn’t be bothered with too much of making it. I think we’re probably always making it, as soon as we make it the unmaking begins and when we’re unmade then we start making again.”button detail, love the loops & the stains on the satinhand stitching on acres of tulle for the train
unmaking this dress and transforming it into the stuff of dreams, perhaps even art will be a challenge but this is a start !

Sea Urchin 3 is starting to take shapelining each panel in white silk edged in needle lace then stitching old bottom E strings from Old Man Crow’s Gibson Les Paul into the edges to give it formstarting to take shapethe old guitar strings make my heart singhoping to get to the halfway point by dawnBraille for the Soul

Sea Urchin 3 in process stitch by stitchpanel 6 detailpanel 7 detailpanel 8 detail
two panels to go then each one will be lined in white silk, edged in buttonhole lace with guitar strings for the ribsBraille for the Soul

Sea Urchin 3 Mo17
progress in the transliteration of Braille for the Souldetail of the 5th panel at the halfway pointthe beginnings of panel 6 exploring the pattern insidedetail of the beautiful perforations inside the sea urchin

Sea Urchin 3 in process Mo 17
the 4th panel took two weeks of numbly stitching through the angst for our beautiful broken worldwith wobbling attention to the surface detailssea urchin surface detail
this one will take quite some time but there is no rushBraille for the Soul

making sense of Sea Urchin III stitch by stitch
each panel informs the next, held the urchin under the magnifying lens
and realized each of the bumps look like a tiny breast replete with nipple & areole!
felt is so easy to stitch & manipulate, this is fun!
stitching is like Braille for the Soul